Edward Grey Quotes

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

You should never assume about someone.

You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are more likely to think that others agree or have had similar experiences. [People] tend to assume that other people have had life histories at least somewhat similar to their own. When we talk about other people, we are often talking about ourselves, whether we know it ourselves.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it's like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. That lens affects how you see everything else.

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.

When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

You see people, you judge. It's just the human thing to do - good or bad, it's a fact. Like when you get a coffee at Starbucks and the person is rude to you. My mom always says, 'Yeah, but you don't know what kind of day they're having.' You don't know the back-story, and that's why it's so fun to be an actor and to get into the back-story.

My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

You judge people as you meet them.

Far from being a loathsome aberration that ought to be purged from our behavior, it turns out that stereotypes are essential life tools, are accurate much more often than not.

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.